User blog comment:SweetSophie19/There is Plently Wrong With the Up Coming DmC/@comment-976055-20111104115009

There's so much wrong with your statements...

Team Ninja (who makes Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive) isn't developing DmC, it's Ninja Theory (Heavenly Sword and Enslaved). Disregarding the possible mix-up in names, Ninja Theory is not "well-known for screwing things up." There's also the fact that Ninja Theory is taking all their direction from Capcom themselves. Capcom are the ones who wanted Ninja Theory to design Dante further from "white hair and red coat" design, so don't blame Ninja Theory for every little thing. Having seen gameplay, and heard how the controls work, the game seems every bit a Devil May Cry game, but with refined controls. Since it's using the triggers for the Angel and Devil stance shifts, it actually makes it more accessible to the player and easier to do the things that were somewhat clunky to do in DMC4. If anything, the game will end up looking like a decent DMC clone that...just happens to be a retelling of the story :p

That's the other thing. So many people who are up in arms against this game keep forgetting that this doesn't destroy your perception of the DMC1-4 canon. This is its own thing. Its own series, if you will. No different than Mega Man, then Mega Man X, then Mega Man Battle Network, Mega Man Zero, etc. Ninja Theory, who is great at delivering narrative, is giving something to the DMC series that it never had before - a great narrative. Any big fan of DMC as a whole knows full well that the series has a campy story that is only about as fleshed out as is necessary to justify all the cool stuff, but that's not to say that DMC doesn't have a great concept. It totally does. So Capcom handed that concept to Ninja Theory, and so Ninja Theory is trying to craft a decent narrative out of it. However, this is still not canon. DmC is secular to DMC. Think...like all the different interpretations of "Alice in Wonderland." Depending on who's making the movie/game/book, there are plenty of things that are different from one another. DmC compared to DMC is just like that.

Dante (And yes, that is his name. Dante. Get over it. It's not changing) also doesn't "hate the world" at large, he hates the demon world that he is seemingly stuck in in this game. Limbo City is infested and run by demons, and they make his life a living hell with trying to kill him all the time - that's how it ties into a disenfranchised youth demographic. He hasn't been seen smoking since the very first trailer from over a year ago, and likewise, he hasn't been bruised and cut since then either. It was an aesthetic effect to show him roughed up like that. So many times you see Dante get wrecked, with no wear and tear to him or his clothes. This is another way of showing how tough the kid is - look at the wounds he's been shown to have there, and then notice his entirely nonchalant, "devil may care" attitude about those injuries. Which brings up his attitude. We haven't even seen his attitude beyond...what tiny little bit of gameplay with story they showed at TGS this year, if you actually took the time to watch it. From what I've seen, this Dante has just about the same somewhat cocky, somewhat arrogant personality. Anything else from this "long list of crap" I'll gladly discuss, too, if you want.

I also haven't seen anyone say "I hate this game, but I'm gonna buy it." That is pretty silly. I'd never want to drop money on something that I wasn't interested in. Though, I think DmC will be a fun game, and as I'm interested to see what Ninja Theory does with the DMC concept that I know and love, I'll gladly pick it up.

No one is forcing you to buy, or even like, DmC. That's free will after all, but don't just jump on the bandwagon, hating on something with unjustified concepts that are consistently parroted by the other raging kiddies.